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GrC 2006: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, GrC 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 10-12, 2006. IEEE 2006, ISBN 1-4244-0134-8
- Ming Li:
Information distance. 1 - Tsau Young Lin:
Granular computing II: Infrastructures for AI-Engineering. 2-7 - Jerry M. Mendel:
Type-2 fuzzy sets for computing with words. 8 - Lech Polkowski:
A model of granular computing with applications. granules from rough inclusions in information systems. 9-16 - Calton Pu, Steve Webb, Oleg M. Kolesnikov, Wenke Lee, Richard J. Lipton:
Towards the integration of diverse spam filtering techniques. 17-20 - Stephen Smale:
Data and learning. 21 - Vladimir Vapnik:
Learning hidden information: SVM+. 22 - Zhengchang Su, Fenglou Mao, Hongwei Wu, PhuongAn Dam, Xin Chen, Tao Jiang, Victor Olman, Brian Palenik
, Ying Xu:
Understanding microbial genomic structures and applications to biological pathway inference. 23-24 - Ronald R. Yager:
Some learning paradigms for granular computing. 25-29 - Lotfi A. Zadeh:
Graduation and granulation are keys to computation with information described in natural language. 30 - Ning Zhong:
The Impending Revolution in Web Intelligence (WI) and Brain Informatics (BI). 31 - Yi X. Zhong:
Structuralism? functionalism? behaviorism? or mechanism? - looking backward and forward on better approach to AI. 32-37 - Florentin Smarandache
Neutrosophic set - a generalization of the intuitionistic fuzzy set. 38-42 - William Zhu, Fei-Yue Wang:
Relationships among three types of covering rough sets. 43-48 - Jianmin Zhao, Jiuzhen Liang
A novel neural network model for different information granulation processing. 49-52 - Yu-Jie Zheng, Xiaojun Wu, Dongjun Yu, Jingyu Yang, Weidong Wang, Yong-Zhi Li:
Feature extraction by structured stepwise nonparametric maximum margin criterion. 53-56 - David Tian
Evaluating the effect of rough set feature selection on the performance of decision trees. 57-62 - Guilong Liu:
The transitive closures of matrices over distributive lattices. 63-66 - Xiaohua Hu:
Ensembles of classifiers based on rough sets theory and set-oriented database operations. 67-73 - Chijian Zhang, H. L. Wang, Lin Zhang:
The intelligent control terminal with SCM based on constructive neural networks. 74-78 - Preetam Ghosh, Samik Ghosh, Kalyan Basu, Sajal K. Das, Simon Daefler:
An analytical model to estimate the time taken for cytoplasmic reactions for stochastic simulation of complex biological systems. 79-84 - Yixin Chen, Ling Chen, Li Tu:
Parallel ant colony algorithm for mining classification rules. 85-90 - Wen-Ran Zhang:
YinYang bipolar T-norms and T-conorms as granular neurological operators. 91-96 - Saeed Reza Ostadzadeh, Mohammad Soleimani
Prediction of the input impedance of two coupled monopole antennas using fuzzy modeling. 97-100 - Christopher N. Eichelberger, Kayvan Najarian:
Simulating protein computing: character recognition via probabilistic transition trees. 101-105 - C. Maria Keet:
A taxonomy of types of granularity. 106-111 - Hong Lin, John A. Rushing, Sara J. Graves, Steve Tanner, Evans Criswell:
Real time target tracking with binary sensor networks and parallel computing. 112-117 - Wenxue Ju, Nina Siu-Ngan Lam, Jianhua Chen:
Application of kohonen self-organizing map for urban structure analysis. 118-123 - Jin-Mao Wei, Shu-Qin Wang, Wei Zheng, Jing Wang, Junping You, Jie Zhang, Dan Liu:
On structural information similarity measurements. 124-129 - Pei Wang:
Artificial general intelligence and classical neural network. 130-135 - Claudia A. S. Mello, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, Marilde Terezinha Prado Santos, Luciano José Senger, Laurence Tianruo Yang:
A new method for classifying and searching software components by using a self-organizing neural network architecture. 136-141 - Hong-Ru Li, Wen-Xiu Zhang, Hong Wang:
Classification and reduction of attributes in concept lattices. 142-147 - Tony Bellotti, Zhiyuan Luo, Alex Gammerman:
Reliable classification of childhood acute leukaemia from gene expression data using confidence machines. 148-153 - Qian Wan, Aijun An:
Efficient indirect association discovery using compact transaction databases. 154-159 - Jianyu Li, Rui Lv, Shuzhong Yang, Xianglin Huang, Zhanxin Yang, Yingjian Qi:
Modeling hierarchical and modular complex networks based on FCM. 160-165 - José Brito, Wladimir Rodriguez:
Multipopulation genetic learning of midsagittal articulatory models for speech synthesis. 166-169 - Jizhen Zhao, Liming Cai, Russell L. Malmberg:
Learning the Parameters of Stochastic Grammar Models for RNA Structures with Pseudoknots. 170-175 - Yu Meng, Margaret H. Dunham:
Online Mining of Risk Level of Traffic Anomalies with User~s Feedbacks. 176-181 - Hyunsoo Kim, Haesun Park:
Discriminant analysis using nonnegative matrix factorization for nonparametric multiclass classification. 182-187 - Narsingh Deo, Aurel Cami:
Mining parameters that characterize the communities in web-like networks. 188-193 - Preethy Iyer, Aparna Nagargadde, Srividya Gopalan, Sridhar Varadarajan:
Two phase approach for grid enablement of legacy applications. 194-199 - Jianmin Ma, Wen-Xiu Zhang, Xia Wang:
Dependence space of concept lattices based on rough set. 200-204 - Radim Belohlávek, Vilém Vychodil:
Computing non-redundant bases of if-then rules from data tables with graded attributes. 205-210 - Jiali Feng, Jingjuan Feng:
Granularity transformation of qualitative criterion, orthogonality of qualitative mapping system, and pattern recognition. 211-216 - Weizhong Zhu, Xuheng Xu, Xiaohua Hu, Il-Yeol Song, Robert B. Allen:
Using UMLS-based Re-Weighting Terms as a Query Expansion Strategy. 217-222 - Tien-Fang Kuo, Yasutoshi Yajima:
A cutting plane algorithm for multiclass kernel discriminations. 223-228 - Wenming Cao, Fei Lu, Shoujue Wang:
Priority ordered direction basis function neural networks and the application for object recognition. 229-231 - Xiao-Jun Zeng, John A. Keane:
A granular computing view on function approximation. 232-237 - Xin Jin, Anbang Xu, Rongfang Bie, Xian Shen, Min Yin:
Spam email filtering with bayesian belief network: using relevant words. 238-243 - José Edison Cabral, João O. P. Pinto, Kathya S. C. Linares, Alexandra M. A. C. Pinto:
Methodology for fraud detection using rough sets. 244-249 - M. Çetin Yavuz, Ferat Sahin, Ziya Arnavut, Önder Uluyol:
Generating and exploiting bayesian networks for fault diagnosis in airplane engines. 250-255 - Ali Reza Mehrabian, S. Vahid Hashemi, Jafar Roshanian, Salman Mohagheghi:
Nonlinear modeling of a flight vehicle using fuzzy clustering. 256-261 - Lily R. Liang, Shiyong Lu, Yi Lu, Puneet Dhawan, Deepak Kumar:
CM-test: An Innovative Divergence Measurement and Its Application in Diabetes Gene Expression Data Analysis. 262-268 - Xingquan Zhu, Xindong Wu:
Error awareness data mining. 269-274 - Mark Last:
The uncertainty principle of cross-validation. 275-280 - Yaohua Chen, Yiyu Yao:
Multiview intelligent data analysis based on granular computing. 281-286 - Wenhai Li, Yucai Feng, Xiaoming Ma:
Approximation method in incomplete information systems based on variable precision model. 287-292 - Hemant Balakrishnan, Narsingh Deo:
Detecting communities using bibliographic metrics. 293-298 - Naixue Xiong, Yan Yang, Jing He, Yanxiang He:
On designing QoS for congestion control service using neural network predictive techniques. 299-304 - Haibin Wang, André Rogatko, Florentin Smarandache, Rajshekhar Sunderraman:
A neutrosophic description logic. 305-308 - Chengyi Zhang, Bencheng Wei, Guohui Chen, Haiyan Fu:
The entropy for rough fuzzy sets. 309-312 - Taorong Qiu, Xiaoqing Chen, Qing Liu, Houkuan Huang:
Granular computing based text classification. 313-316 - Wan-Li Chen, Qian-Sheng Fang, Jia-Xing Cheng:
Pseudo-quotient space theory for granular computing of non-partition model. 317-320 - Guangcheng Zhou, Jiuzhen Liang
Granular computing model based on ontology. 321-324 - Srinivasan Ramaswamy, M. Malarvannan:
Service oriented architectures for grid computing environments: opportunities and challenges. 325-328 - Wei-Zhi Wu, Wen-Xiu Zhang:
Rough set approximations VS. measurable spaces. 329-332 - Ying Sai, Peiyao Nie, Ruzhi Xu, Jincai Huang:
A rough set approach to mining concise rules from inconsistent data. 333-336 - Yongling Song, Su-Shing Chen:
Item sets based graph mining algorithm and application in genetic regulatory networks. 337-340 - Weimin Xue, Huimin Xue, Hong Bao:
The virtual human affective interaction based on affective entropy. 341-344 - Jiannong Zhang, Yongling Song, Su-Shing Chen:
Granular computing and compositional complexity of biomolecular sequences. 345-348 - Li-Juan Zhang, Zhou-Jun Li:
A novel rough set approach for classification. 349-352 - Zhong Huang, Xiaohua Hu:
Object oriented modeling of protein translation system. 353-356 - Wenchuan Yang, Qiong Wu, Ping Hou, Yang Zhang:
The research of a web-based network blocking prototype for next generation network. 357-360 - S. Kami Makki, David A. Heitbrink, Xiaohua Jia:
Flooding isolated region reassignment. 361-364 - Zhengxin Chen:
A graduate seminar on foundations of data mining. 365-368 - Bing Yu, Xingshi He:
Training radial basis function networks with differential evolution. 369-372 - Asit Kumar Das, Jaya Sil:
Pattern evaluation using polynomial regression- a clustering and probabilistic approach. 373-376 - Jiyi Wang, Renbing Lin:
A new knowledge reduction in inconsistent decision information system. 377-380 - Lin Yan, Sui-Hua Wang, Xue-Dong Zhang:
Semantic reasoning study for rough logic about n-ary formulas. 381-384 - Changhui Yan:
A Hidden Markov Model Approach to Model Protein Sequence and Structural Information: Identification of Helix-Turn-Helix DNA-Binding Motif. 385-388 - Alzennyr Da Silva, Francisco de Assis Tenório de Carvalho, Yves Lechevallier, Brigitte Trousse:
Characterizing visitor groups from web data streams. 389-392 - Qing Liu, Jiyi Wang:
Semantic analysis of rough logical formulas based on granular computing. 393-396 - Daoguo Li, Duoqian Miao, Yiqi Yin:
Relation of relative reduct based on nested decision granularity. 397-400 - Huan Xu, Fanzhang Li:
Lie group machine learning's axiom hypothesizes. 401-404 - Ling Qin, Yixin Chen, Ling Chen, Yan Wu:
An improved ant colony algorithm with biological characteristics. 405-408 - Xiaofang Zhao, Fanzhang Li:
Denotational semantics of dynamic fuzzy logic programming language. 409-412 - Jin Huang, Fanzhang Li:
Default assumption reasoning based on DFL. 413-416 - Xiaoxing He, Weitong Huang, Mingyu Lu, Weimin Xue, Yuchang Lu:
Research and application of data mining in individual diagnosis and treatment based on chinese traditional medicine. 417-419 - Qun Liu, Xiaofeng Liao, Guoyin Wang, Yu Wu:
Research for Hopf bifurcation of an inertial two-neuron system with time delay. 420-423 - Janardhana Punuru, Jianhua Chen:
Automatic acquisition of concepts from domain texts. 424-427 - Libiao Zhang, Chunguang Zhou, Ming Ma, Xiaohua Liu, Chunxia Li, Caitang Sun, Miao Liu:
Fuzzy kernel clustering based on particle swarm optimization. 428-430 - Pavel Klinov, Lawrence J. Mazlack:
Granulating semantic web ontologies. 431-434 - Paul Cotofrei, Kilian Stoffel:
Stochastic processes and temporal rules. 435-440 - Ming Lei, Pilian He, Zhichao Li:
Applying RBF Network to Predict Location in Mobile Network. 441-444 - Blake Adams, Muhammad Asadur Rahman:
Transductive Support Vector Classification for RNA Related Biological Abstracts. 445-448 - Bernard Chen, Phang C. Tai, Robert W. Harrison, Yi Pan:
Novel Clustering Algorithm Combined With DSSP Post Processing For Protein Sequence Motif Discovering. 449-452 - Jing Liu, Jun Sun, Wenbo Xu, X. H. Kong:
Quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization based on immune memory and vaccination. 453-456 - Yuchun Tang, Yan-Qing Zhang:
Granular SVM with Repetitive Undersampling for Highly Imbalanced Protein Homology Prediction. 457-460 - Yuanchen He, Yuchun Tang, Yan-Qing Zhang, Rajshekhar Sunderraman:
Mining fuzzy association rules from microarray gene expression data for leukemia classification. 461-464 - Yi Wang, Wenhui Li, Tianzhu Wang, Dongfeng Han, Yu Meng:
Collision detection for deforming linear objects using particle swarm optimization. 465-468 - Weimin Xue, Weitong Huang, Yuchang Lu:
Application of SVM in web page categorization. 469-472 - Xiaosheng Wang:
Inducing decision rules: a granular computing approach. 473-477 - Fei Chen, Lin Shang, Ming Li, Zhaoqian Chen, Shifu Chen:
Mining Frequent Patterns based on Compressed FP-tree without Conditional FP-tree Generation. 478-481 - Yan Yang, Mohamed S. Kamel, Fan Jin:
ART-based Clustering Aggregation. 482-485 - Zheng Pei, Liangzhong Yi:
A new aggregation operator of linguistic information and its properties. 486-489 - Elhadi M. Shakshuki, Sajid Hussain, Abdul Wasey Matin, Abdur Rafey Matin:
Agent-based peer-to-peer layered architecture for data transfer in wireless sensor networks. 490-493 - Ying Xie, Tom Johnsten, Vijay V. Raghavan, Karthik Ramachandran:
On discovering "potentially useful" patterns from databases. 494-497 - Yichuan Zhao, Yue Zhou:
Statistical analysis of high dimensional gene data. 502-505 - Praveen Madiraju, Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Haibin Wang:
A framework for global constraint checking involving aggregates in multidatabases using granular computing. 506-509 - Liu Zijun, Baiquan Lu, Yuan Cao:
A new optimization method based on restructuring penalty function for solving constrained minimization problems. 510-513 - Giuseppe Fenza, Vincenzo Loia, Luigi Scarpa, Sabrina Senatore:
Flexible geospatial web services through fuzzy multisets. 514-517 - Li-Shiang Tsay, Zbigniew W. Ras:
Discovering e-action rules from incomplete information systems. 518-521 - Dongbin Zhou, Lifeng Jia, Zhe Wang, Xiujuan Xu, Chunguang Zhou:
An agent-based dual-tier algorithm for clustering data streams. 522-525 - Hongbin Fang, Ling Zhang:
Quotient space approachability basing on measure space and fusion model of weighted graphical structure. 526-529 - Quan Gan, Guoyin Wang, Jun Hu:
A self-learning model based on granular computing. 530-533 - Fei Chen, Jie Yuan, Fusheng Yu:
Finding periodicity in pseudo periodic time series and forecasting. 534-537 - Masayuki Hirose, Einoshin Suzuki:
DPITT: Multi-viewpoint Visualization System for Detecting Peculiar WWW Pages Rapidly. 538-541 - Xiaowei He, Liming Xu, Wenzhong Shen:
Dynamic information system and its rough set model based on time sequence. 542-545 - Haoran Zhang, Xiaodong Wang, Changjiang Zhang, Ganyun Lv:
New Soft Sensor Method Based on SVM. 546-549 - Parminder Kaur, Peter B. O'Connor:
Comparison of charge state determination methods for high resolution mass spectra. 550-553 - Enis Afgan, Pavithran Sathyanarayana, Purushotham V. Bangalore:
Dynamic Task Distribution in the Grid for BLAST. 554-557 - Guiling Zhang, Jizhou Sun:
Grid intrusion detection based on soft computing by modeling real-user's normal behaviors. 558-561 - Xiaohong Wu, Qunxia Wang:
Application of rough set attributes reduction in quality evaluation of dissertation. 562-565 - Meihua Xiao, Jinyun Xue:
Formal automatic verification of security protocols. 566-569 - Ganyun Lv, Jinjv Zheng, Haoran Zhang:
Multi-tie SVMs Classifier based Power Equipment Fault Diagnosis. 570-573 - Li Zou, Jun Ma, Yang Xu:
A framework of linguistic truth-valued propositional logic based on lattice implication algebra. 574-577 - Cynthia Xin Zhang, Zbigniew W. Ras:
Differentiated harmonic feature analysis on music information retrieval for instrument recognition. 578-581 - Puntip Pattaraintakorn, Nick Cercone, Kanlaya Naruedomkul:
Rule analysis with rough sets theory. 582-585 - Radim Belohlávek, Vilém Vychodil:
Dense rectangles in object-attribute data. 586-591 - R. Pradeep Kumar, P. Nagabhushan:
Wavesim transform - a new perspective of wavelet transform for temporal data clustering. 592-595 - Yaohang Li, Tao Dong, Xinyu Zhang, Yong-Duan Song, Xiaohong Yuan:
Large-scale software unit testing on the grid. 596-599 - Minh Nhat Quang Truong, Van Kiem Hoang, Thuy Thanh Nguyen:
Using null data processing to recognize variant computer viruses for rule-based anti-virus systems. 600-603 - Xiaoqing Chen, Taorong Qiu, Qing Liu, Houkuan Huang:
The framework of temporal granular logic based on information system. 604-606 - Jiye Li, Nick Cercone:
Assigning missing attribute values based on rough sets theory. 607-610 - Wenming Cao, Tiancheng He, Shoujue Wang:
Text-continuous speech recognition based on ICA and geometrical learning. 611-614 - Ming Zhong, Xiangji Huang
An effective extension to okapi for biomedical text mining. 615-618 - Miao Wen, Xiangji Huang
A multilevel searching and re-ranking framework for information retrieval. 619-622 - Hisham Al-Mubaid, Hoa Al-Mubaid:
New ontology-based semantic similarity measure for the biomedical domain. 623-628 - Yu Meng, Margaret H. Dunham, Marco F. Marchetti, Jie Huang:
Rare Event Detection in a Spatiotemporal Environment. 629-634 - Mariofanna G. Milanova, Tomasz G. Smolinski, Grzegorz M. Boratyn, Roger Buchanan, Astrid A. Prinz:
Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms and rough sets for decomposition and analysis of cortical evoked potentials. 635-638 - L. Scott Bock, Zhenyuan Wang:
Using 2-additive measures in nonlinear multiregressions. 639-642 - Lei Li, Vijay K. Vaishnavi, Art Vandenberg:
A genetic algorithm based approach for systematic SOM clustering of directory metadata. 643-646 - Jae Yoo, David W. Digby, Adam Davis, William Seffens:
Whole transcriptome mRNA secondary structure analysis using distributed computation. 647-650 - Zhijian Liu, Bin Wu, Roy George:
Fuzzy clustering for knowledge discovery in oceanographic data. 651-654 - Hisham Al-Mubaid, Noushin Ghaffari:
Identifying the most significant genes from gene expression profiles for sample classification. 655-658 - Jianchao Han, Mohsen Beheshti:
Mining fuzzy association rules: interestingness measure and algorithm. 659-662 - Guantao Chen, Hai Deng, Yufeng Gui, Yi Pan, Xue Wang:
Cysteine separations profiles on protein secondary structure infer disulfide connectivity. 663-665 - Mahmood Hossain, Susan M. Bridges, Yong Wang, Julia E. Hodges:
An ensemble approach for generating partitional clusters from multiple cluster hierarchies. 666-670 - Bo Jin, Yan-Qing Zhang:
Evolutionary voting kernel machines for cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor activity comparisons. 671-674 - Changjiang Zhang, Xiaodong Wang, Haoran Zhang, Ganyun Lv:
Contrast enhancement for image with non-linear gray transform and wavelet neural network. 675-678 - Cheng-Ming Huang, Tzung-Pei Hong, Shi-Jinn Horng:
Simultaneously mining inter- and intra-object association rules. 679-682 - Jingtao Yao, Wei-Ning Liu:
The STP model for solving imprecise problems. 683-687 - Ivan S. Radev:
XHMG: Content-Based Web HyperMedia Modeling and Retrieval System. 688-691 - Yanrong Li, Raj P. Gopalan:
Clustering high dimensional sparse transactional data with constraints. 692-695 - Ying-Jen Chen, Wen-June Wang:
A novel stabilization criterion for discrete time fuzzy systems. 696-699 - James Kuodo Huang:
A functional approach to pattern recognition theory. 700-703 - Juan Jiang, Hong Ding, Tao Peng:
Research of the model about the application of granular computing in data fusion system. 704-707 - Keming Xie, Gang Xie
BGrC for Superheated Steam Temperature System Modeling in Power Plant. 708-711 - Shusaku Tsumoto, Shoji Hirano:
Analysis of sample size effect on dependency of contingency matrix. 712-715 - Shusaku Tsumoto, Shoji Hirano:
Characterization of contextual independence of contingency matrix. 716-719 - Yitao Duan, John F. Canny:
Zero-knowledge test of vector equivalence granulation of user data with privacy. 720-725 - Da-Wei Wang, Churn-Jung Liau, Tsan-sheng Hsu:
Attribute-oriented Granulation for Privacy Protection. 726-731 - David A. Cieslak, Nitesh V. Chawla, Aaron Striegel
Combating imbalance in network intrusion datasets. 732-737 - Hua-Sheng Chiu, Hsin-Nan Lin
A Two-stage Classifier for Protein B-turn Prediction Using Support Vector Machines. 738-743 - Liyang Yu, Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Haibin Wang:
An indexation and discovery architecture for semantic web services and its application in bioinformatics. 744-749 - Sangeeta Venkatachalam, Armin R. Mikler:
Modeling infectious diseases using global stochastic field simulation. 750-753 - Weidong Mao, Dumitru Brinza, Nisar Hundewale, Stefan Gremalschi, Alexander Zelikovsky
Genotype susceptibility and integrated risk factors for complex diseases. 754-757 - Jingwu He, Jun Zhang, Gulsah Altun, Alexander Zelikovsky
Haplotype tagging using support vector machines. 758-761 - Gulsah Altun, Hae-Jin Hu, Dumitru Brinza, Robert W. Harrison, Alexander Zelikovsky
Hybrid SVM Kernels for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction. 762-765 - Arnshea Clayton, Yanqing Zhang:
Neural networks with resilient propagation for protein secondary structure prediction. 766-769 - William Zhu, Clark D. Thomborson, Fei-Yue Wang:
Obfuscate arrays by homomorphic functions. 770-773 - Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Agusti Solanas
Privacy in Statistical Databases: k-Anonymity Through Microaggregation. 774-777 - Valli Kumari Vatsavayi
Fair and secure m-cash. 778-781 - Raheem A. Beyah, Cherita L. Corbett, John A. Copeland:
The case for collaborative distributed wireless intrusion detection systems. 782-787 - Jordi Castellà-Roca
Privacy homomorphisms for e-gambling and mental poker. 788-791 - Richard Scott Patterson, John A. Miller:
Expressing authorization in semantic web services. 792-795 - Jorge Cardoso:
Semantic integration of web services and peertopeer networks to achieve fault-tolerance. 796-799 - Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse, Gustavo P. Sudre:
A comparison of two partial matching strategies for classification of unseen cases. 800-805 - Andrzej Bargiela, Witold Pedrycz:
The roots of granular computing. 806-809
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